Tutorial:

Portlet 2.0 API Development with WebSphere Portal 8 and Rational 8.5

TheServerSide has been running a series of written tutorials that examine and explain the key
concepts involved in portlet 2.0 development. Of course, even the best written tutorials can be a
little dry, so to complement these articles, TheServerSide is also providing a corresponding set of
screencasts that will show how each of these portlets and portlet applications would be built if a
software developer were to be using Rational
Application Developer 8.5 and deploying to WebSphere Portal 8.

The following video complements the introductory
tutorial in which a simple HelloWorldPortlet is developed and deployed.

The code itself is not particularly overwhelming. There is simply a doView method that generates
a little "HelloWorld" message on the portal page:

Of course, the tutorial goes far beyond just coding a simple HelloWorld portlet. In the video,
important concepts about the structure of a portlet application, important artifacts like the
portlet deployment descriptor and the Web.xml file, and information on how to set up a
WebSphere Portal test environment from within the Rational Application Developer environment
are all explored. If you're interested in learning and mastering portlet development, this is
definitely the right place to start.

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